The 1994–95 Vyshcha Liha season was the 4th since its establishment. FC Dynamo Kyiv were the defending champions.
Teams Promotions Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk, the champion of the 1993–94 Ukrainian First League – (returning after two seasons of absence) Evis Mykolaiv, the runner-up of the 1993–94 Ukrainian First League – (returning after two seasons of absence)
Renamed On 2 October 1994 Evis Mykolaiv changed its name to SC Mykolaiv. During the season, Metalurh Zaporizhzhia also carried the name Metalurh-Viktor Zaporizhzhia (after a local entrepreneur Viktor Oharenko).
Location
Managers Club Coach Replaced Coach Home stadiumFC Dynamo Kyiv Mykola Pavlov Yozhef Sabo 17 games Volodymyr Onyschenko 5 gamesRepublican StadiumFC Chornomorets Odesa Leonid BuriakBlack Sea Shipping StadiumFC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Bernd Stange Mykola Pavlov 17 games Oleksandr Lysenko 6 gamesMeteor StadiumFC Shakhtar Donetsk Vladimir Salkov Valery Yaremchenko 17 gamesShakhtar StadiumSC Tavriya Simferopol Anatoliy Zayaev Pavlo Kostin 10 games Andriy Cheremysin 7 games Vitaliy Shalychev 10 gamesLokomotyv StadiumFC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Yuriy Koval Volodymyr Brukhtiy 4 games Anatoliy Bida 1 game Viktor Kuznetsov 17 games Valentyn Laktionov 3 gamesMetalurh StadiumFC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia Ihor NadeinAvtoZAZ StadiumFC Karpaty Lviv Myron MarkevychUkraina StadiumFC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Oleksandr Tomakh Anatoliy Kuksov 7 gamesMetalurh StadiumFC Kremin Kremenchuk Tiberiy Korponay Evhen Rudakov 4 gamesDnipro StadiumFC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk Ihor YurchenkoElektron StadiumFC Nyva Ternopil Ihor Yavorskyi Valeriy Dushkov 11 gamesCity StadiumSC Mykolaiv Yevhen Kucherevskyi Valery Zhuravko 10 games Leonid Koltun 1 gameCentral City StadiumFC Nyva Vinnytsia Serhiy Morozov Oleksandr Bobaryko 22 games Yuriy Koval 2 gamesCentral City StadiumFC Volyn Lutsk Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi Roman Pokora 8 gamesAvanhard StadiumFC Zorya-MALS Oleksandr Zhuravliov Volodymyr Kobzarev 17 games Yuriy Sevastyanov 3 games Anatoliy Korshykov 3 gamesAvanhard StadiumFC Temp Shepetivka Revaz Dzodzuashvili Leonid Tkachenko 16 games Stanislav Bernykov 8 gamesTemp StadiumFC Veres Rivne Mykhailo Fomenko Vyacheslav Kobyletskyi 16 games Orest Bal 5 games Ivan Krasnetskyi(7 games)Avanhard Stadium
Changes TeamOutgoing head coachManner of departureDate of vacancyTableIncoming head coachDate of appointmentTableFC Chornomorets Odesa Viktor Prokopenkopre-season Leonid Buriakpre-seasonFC Nyva Ternopil Leonid Buriakpre-season Valeriy Dushkovpre-seasonFC Nyva Vinnytsia Yukhym Shkolnykovpre-season Oleksandr Bobarykopre-seasonFC Kremin Kremenchuk Yevhen RudakovJuly 1994 Tiberiy Korponay1 August 1994SC Tavriya Simferopol Pavlo KostinPerished in car accidentend of September Andriy Cheremysin (interim)3 October 1994SC Tavriya Simferopol Andriy Cheremysin (interim)Mutual consentwinter break Vitaliy ShalychevFebruary 1995SC Tavriya Simferopol Vitaliy ShalychevMay 1995 Anatoliy ZayaevMay 1995
Notes: The new 1994-95 season SC Tavriya Simferopol under leadership of a coach Pavlo Kostin (native of Chornomorske Raion, Crimea). Sometime after the game against Volyn (Round 10) on 23 September 1994 in Simferopol, Kostin (43 years old) perished in a car accident along with his wife.Naukhatskiy, B. Memorial Cup of our countryman . Sports column, "Chernomorskie izvestiya". 28 September 2013 According to some sources (footballfacts.ru), Kostin perished on 15 September 1994.Kostin at footballfacts.ru
League table
Results
Top goalscorers RankPlayerClubGoals(Pen.)1 Arsen AvakovTorpedo Zaporizhzhia21 (6)2 Oleksiy AntyukhinTavriya Simferopol183 Oleksandr HaidashTavriya Simferopol17 Victor LeonenkoDynamo Kyiv17 (1)5 Ihor PetrovShakhtar Donetsk14 (5)6 Mikhail PotskhveriaZorya / Metalurh137 Timerlan HuseinovChornomorets Odesa12 Andrei FedkovKremin Kremenchuk12 (1)9 Ruslan ZabranskyiMykolaiv11 (1)10 Ivan KorponayKremin Kremenchuk10
Medal squads (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) 1. FC Dynamo Kyiv Goalkeepers: Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (25 / -15), Valeriy Vorobiov (7 / -8), Andriy Kovtun (3 / -1). Defenders: Vladyslav Vashchuk (31 / 3), Oleh Luzhnyi (24 / 4), Serhiy Lezhentsev (24), Andriy Khomyn (21 / 2), Yuriy Dmytrulin (17 / 1), Serhiy Shmatovalenko (14), Serhiy Bezhenar (13 / 1), Andriy Annenkov (3). Midfielders: Vitaliy Kosovskyi (27 / 6), Dmytro Mykhailenko (25 / 5), Serhiy Mizin (20 / 5), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (17 / 3), Serhiy Kovalets (17 / 2), Yuriy Kalitvintsev (14 / 2), Yuriy Maksymov (11 / 5), Volodymyr Sharan (11 / 2), Dmytro Topchiyev (2), Maksim Demenko (1), Vladyslav Prudius (1). Forwards: Serhii Rebrov (24 / 8), Pavlo Shkapenko (24 / 8), Viktor Leonenko (20 / 17), Serhiy Konovalov (17 / 5), Andriy Shevchenko (17 / 1), Serhiy Skachenko (16 / 3), Oleksandr Pryzetko (13 / 1), Mikheil Jishkariani (8 / 3), Naser al-Sohi (1).
Manager: Yozhef Sabo (first half), Volodymyr Onyshchenko, Mykola Pavlov (second half).
Transferred out during the season: Oleksandr Pryzetko (to Dinamo-Gazovik), Maksim Demenko (to Lada Togliatti), Serhiy Kovalets (to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Volodymyr Sharan (to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Mikheil Jishkariani (to CSKA-Borysfen), Valeriy Vorobiov (to CSKA-Borysfen), Dmytro Topchiyev (to CSKA-Borysfen), Vladyslav Prudius (to CSKA-Borysfen). 2. FC Chornomorets Odesa Goalkeepers: Oleh Suslov (34 / -27), Vadym Vinokurov (2 / -2). Defenders: Yuriy Bukel (29), Andriy Telesnenko (28 / 1), Vladislav Ternavsky (16 / 1), Yuriy Smotrych (10), Denys Kolchyn (8), Vitaliy Skysh (5), Oleksiy Cherednyk (3), Serhiy Bulyhin-Shramko (2). Midfielders: Dmytro Parfyonov (33 / 6), Ihor Zhabchenko (32 / 7), Yuriy Sak (23 / 5), Vitaliy Kolesnychenko (21 / 2), Andrei Gashkin (20 / 5), Oleksandr Spivak (19), Oleksandr Horshkov (18), Ihor Korniyets (16 / 1), Yuriy Seleznyov (13 / 2), Ruslan Romanchuk (12 / 2), Oleksandr Nikiforov (9), Oleksandr Zotov (8 / 3), Vyacheslav Yeremeyev (7), Viktor Yablonskyi (5 / 1), Vladyslav Zubkov (4), Viktor Bohatyr (3). Forwards: Tymerlan Huseinov (29 / 12), Volodymyr Musolitin (19 / 3), Vitaliy Parakhnevych (13 / 4), Vasyl Kardash (13 / 2), Oleh Mochulyak (8 / 2), Kostyantyn Kulyk (5 / 2).
Manager: Leonid Buriak.
Transferred out during the season: ?. 3. FC Dnipro DnipropetrovskGoalkeepers: Mykola Medin (19 / -13), Svyatoslav Syrota (16 / -17), Konstantin Ledovskikh (1 / -3). Defenders: Viktor Skrypnyk (31 / 8), Volodymyr Bahmut (30 / 1), Volodymyr Horily (25), Serhiy Diryavka (19), Serhiy Bezhenar (17 / 3), Dmytro Yakovenko (17), Oleksandr Chervonyi (7), Hennadiy Kozar (7), Yevhen Dmitriyev (6), Andriy Yudin (6), Oleksiy Kuptsov (3), Albert Shakhov (2), Serhiy Bilokin (1), Serhiy Zadorozhnyi (1). Midfielders: Andriy Polunin (31 / 7), Aleksandr Zakharov (25 / 1), Valentyn Moskvyn (17 / 2), Serhiy Kovalets (15 / 3), Dmytro Topchiyev (15 / 3), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (15 / 2), Ihor Plotko (15 / 1), Volodymyr Sharan (14 / 2), Yuriy Maksymov (13 / 4), Serhiy Dumenko (9 / 1), Serhiy Chornyi (3). Forwards: Borys Finkel (29 / 9), Serhiy Konovalov (17 / 3), Oleksandr Palyanytsia (13 / 6), Oleh Taran (7 / 1), Andriy Kotyuk (6), Andreas Sassen (6), Serhiy Chuichenko (4).
Manager: Mykola Pavlov (first half), Oleksandr Lysenko, Bernd Stange (second half).
Transferred out during the season: Serhiy Bezhenar (to Dynamo Kyiv), Serhiy Konovalov (to Dynamo Kyiv), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (to Dynamo Kyiv), Yuriy Maksymov (to Dynamo Kyiv).
Note: Players in italic are whose playing position is uncertain.
References
External links Season record at Alexei Kobyzev website